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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






2. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.






3. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle






4. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






5. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






6. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






7. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






8. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase






9. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






10. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






11. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






12. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






13. A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed - monitored - and controlled.






14. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






15. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






16. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






17. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






18. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






19. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






20. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






21. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






22. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






23. A request - demand or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer or vice versa for consideration - compensation - or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract (such as for a disputed change)






24. Graphic display of schedule related information.






25. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






26. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






27. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






28. Describes each component in the work breakdown structure (WBS). for each WBS component - the WBS dictionary includes a brief definition of the scope of statement of work - defined deliverables - a list of associated activities and list of milestones.






29. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






30. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






31. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






32. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






33. Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by schedule activity with more than one successor activity






34. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






35. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






36. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






37. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






38. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






39. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






40. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






41. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.






42. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






43. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






44. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






45. Cost - time - quality - technical or resource value used as a parameter and which may be included in product specification. crossing the threshold should trigger some action.






46. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






47. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






48. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






49. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






50. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed. Calculated based on performance to date or estimated by the project team based on other factors